The majority of Braxton's touches are with him at QB and the defense rushing 11 because it's an obvious draw. Despite that, he's averaging over 6 yards per carry. He's got good hands, but he's rarely put in a position to use them. He's another victim of Tim Beck's incompetence.

I'd be surprised if they took the case. There are issues of personal jurisdiction in that the defendant is an Ohio based company who does not appear to do business in Michigan. Moreover, given that the possible defendant(s) reside in Ohio, and the acts that gave rise to any claims occured in Ohio, it's likely that the proper venue for the action would be in Ohio, specifically the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.

Right, because it's not like the kid's high school coach has any motivation to downplay his injuries. Not like he migh want to avoid any questions about whether he rushed he kid back after the first time he blew out his knee, thus contributing to he second knee injury.

4. December 2014: Dean tears his meniscus during his final game. Apparently the same knee as he previously injured.

5. January 2015, Dean early enrolls at OSU. This is the first time that OSU's physicians have been allowed to examine him. During his first week on campus, OSU's doctors determine he is medically unable to play football and refuse to clear him. Dean tweets about needing a meniscus transplant.

6. March/April 2015: Dean's coach publicly attacks OSU for hardshipping Dean, and claims (but does not seem to have provided copies) to have a second opinion from Dr. Andrews that Dean will be fine after a bit of rehab.

I had season tickets in the row behind the guy on the left. He didn't know anything about football, spent the entire season begging cameramen to put him on TV, and sat on his hands when he wasn't being shown. We used to throw gummy bears at his wig to see if we could get them to stick.

It makes no sense for Meyer to cut a 4* prospect before signing day, and before the kid had even been on the field to see what he can do. The simpler explanation is that the kid blew out his knee and is unable to perform. As for the long snapper, grayshirting, while not ideal, isn't that rare. For instance, Jeremy Clark at Michigan.

The medical team made the decision on January 12, which is way before OSU knew how many kids it would actually sign. Moreover, Dean was tweeting about a meniscus transplant in January. It sucks, but the kid's career is over.

I don't think anyone truly expects a national championship threepeat. I don't think we'll ever see that with the playoff system. That said, I think OSU will continue to dominate the B1G for the foreseeable future. MSU has peaked, Nebraska just fired a coach who went 9-3 for one who went 5-7, Wisconsin is Wisconsin, and Michigan is in the beginning stages of its third rebuilding since 2008.

Dean was tweeting about a meniscus transplant in January. Unfortunately, OSU can't discuss specific medical issues due to FERPA and HIPPAA , meaning that we're relying on an upset teenager and his high school coach to give us medical information. I can understand Dean's unhappiness at being told his career is over. Dean probably expected to play in the NFL, and to be told that's not going to happen has to be tough.

Accelerated law school programs are a horrible idea if you actually want to practice law. My understanding is that you take classes year round, meaning you can't really clerk or intern anywhere, so you graduate with no practical skills and no contacts.

As far as career stats, for recent classes, roughly 44% of law school grads actually get a permanent job that requires bar admission within nine months of graduating. That includes people doing document review, which is like the Wal-Mart of law jobs. If you have a degree in hard sciences or something and want to do patent law, go for it. Otherwise, I'd urge you to seriously consider it and read some of the law school scam blogs.

I was in the class of '11. At our bar admissions ceremony, the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court spent half her speech listing all the things we could do with a law degree even if we never worked as an attorney. It was one of the most depressing moments of my legal career.

Get a set of Ping Eye 2s. They're usually under $200. They may not be the newest and shiniest, but they're still great clubs and won't carry the stigma of department store/top flight if you worry about that sort of thing.

Recruiting services have really damaged college sports. 20 years ago, no one would have heard of Mike Weber, Chris Clark, or Torrance Gibson until they saw playing time. Now we have people paying for subscriptions so they can better stalk high school kids.

IIRC, a person becomes a booster as soon as they buy tickets to a single game or makes any contribution to the school's athletics department. I think that even membership to an alumni association can qualify if the association promotes athletics.

There were allegations back in 2008 that there were bogus independent study courses for student athletes at Michigan. "

"The average grade for 21 athletes who took 32 graded courses from Hagen, 25 of them independent studies, was 3.62. Those athletes had a grade point average of 2.57 in their other classes, according to transcripts reviewed by the newspaper."

I'm not sure what makes you think OSU would protect Meyer; we fired Woody for much less, and he was more of an icon than Urban will ever be.

The difference between OSU fans and Penn State fans is that the vast majority of OSU's assholes are Biglots Buckeyes who only root for OSU because there's no NFL team in central Ohio. The alumni are embarrassed by them and they have no say in how the university operates. Penn State's assholes are the alumni.

I read somewhere that Pelini's contract says Nebraska has to keep paying him unless he takes another FBS coaching job. YSU is actually not a bad choice for him - he gets to collect two paychecks and keep being a head coach at what has historically been a pretty good program.

Honestly, the thing that surprised me most was that Michigan made more off of athletics than OSU last year.

The author ignores the fact that OSU and Michigan have historically had different missions. OSU is a land-grant school which was, until the 1990s, required to admit any Ohioan with a diploma. Give it another 20 years, and OSU will tie or surpass Michigan in those rankings.

A fun bit of trivia: Harlan Hatcher, the president who essentially built Michigan into what it is today, was an OSU alum.

I just don't see it. Michigan is still a good coaching job, but it doesn't have the personnel for Herman's offense, and the odds would be stacked against him being there long enough to recruit and develop the talent he'd need. Herman's entire philosophy is based around a no-huddle zone read. Do you see Morris or Bellomy or Cone being able to run that?

C. OSU has dealt with a lot and proven that they can still win, and win convincingly. They're a hell of a team. We lost our Heisman candidate starting QB in August, but still went 11-1 on the season. Our backup set a number of records in the process. Then we lost our backup, and our 3rd string QB just led the team to a 59-0 curb stomping of Wisconsin and a B1g championship. Show me one other team in the country who can do that.

C. OSU has dealt with a lot and proven that they can still win, and win convincingly. They're a hell of a team. We lost our Heisman candidate starting QB in August, but still went 11-1 on the season. Our backup set a number of records in the process. Then we lost our backup, and our 3rd string QB just led the team to a 59-0 curb stomping of Wisconsin and a B1g championship. Show me one other team in the country who can do that.

Not sure about this year, but traditionally, the entire team gets 1 Buckeye leaf for a win, and an additional buckeye leaf for a B1G win. Each unit also gets leaves for stats like scoring more than X points (or holding the opponent to under X), having multiple drives of X yards or more, winning the turnover battle, etc.

He hadn't played in over a month - since before his concussion. I'd also point out that his family had said they were happy with the treatment Karageorge had received for his most recent concussion- see my link above. One of OSU's team neurologists, Russell Lonser, also was in charge of the study of Junior Seau's brain before he came to OSU. http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-State/2013/06/27/OSU-going-long-on-concu...

It's a horrible situation, but I'd urge you to refrain from starting a witch hunt before the facts are known.

That's what I don't understand. I'm almost willing to give Hoke the benefit of the doubt that he didn't see Morris get hit or whatever, but how could the trainers/team physician let Morris back in the game after he got to the sidelines? Dude was obviously out of it.

Is Michigan one of the states where the force element is satisfied by the force necessary to achieve penetration, or however it's worded? I'm not a criminal lawyer, but I seem to recall that at least some states interepreted thrusting or entry as sufficient force to meet that element.

I'd say that Gibbons clearly violated a standard. Did his actions rise to the level of sexual assault? Maybe not. Were they grossly inappropriate and deserving of sanction? I'd say yes. Student-athletes are representatives of the university and are held to a higher standard. I mean, do we as a society really want to say that it's OK to take advantage of drunk chicks, but not OK to be five minutes late to practice?

I can't say I'm shocked by this. Penn State has a history of not self-reporting anything that would make them look bad. For instance, I think the last time they self-reported to the NCAA pre-Sandusky was in 1985.

I agree it's troubling if that's how Bo's school interprets the standard of proof, but the actual standard is preponderance of the evidence. If his school is interpreting the rule differently, that's a problem with his school, not the standard, which is that there must be a preponderance of the evidence that the accused committed the violation. I'd also note that he indicated his approach to these cases changed from assuming he'd always side with the complainant to acknowledging how nuanced and difficult these cases can be after he went through his training.

Ok, I see what you're saying now; I thought you meant public in the same sense as a jury verdict being public. It's a legitimate concern, but at the same time, I think holding student conduct departments to the same standard as an actual court is unreasonable. I don't know the answer, but I'd suggest that this case is an outlier for a lot of reasons, including Gibbons's relatively high profile.

Oh, I agree with you on that. I'm just saying that the Ohio Supreme Court (and I suspect most other courts) read FERPA as protecting a fairly wide range of documents beyond what most people would consider "educational records." Of course, the Ohio Supreme Court gets a lot of things wrong.

You don't necessarily have to register, at least in Ohio. As long as you're trying to avoid being seen, e.g. in an alley behind a dumpster, you probably wouldn't have to register, and it's likely you wouldn't even be convicted. If you were peeing next to an elementary school during recess, on the other hand...

From reading the policy, it's hard to believe that Michigan (or any other university) would proceed with discipline if the complainant refuses to cooperate or if the university is unable to contact the complainant.

Upon receipt of a report, the University strives to complete its review of that report within sixty (60) calendar days, its sanction or intervention process within fifteen (15) calendar days after the University’s findings are shared with the participating Complainant and Respondent, and its appellate process within fifteen (15) days of the Appeals Board’s receipt of the appeal. There are, however, many factors that may affect the length of time needed to complete various portions of the resolution process fairly and equitably. As such, some matters will be resolved before the designated time frames and some may be resolved afterward.

I'd say you're the one playing word games, sport. If you're a lawyer, you should know there are plenty of reasons not to prosecute besides a false accusation.

As for your first paragraph, I'd argue that when a person starts by repeatedly asking about whether charges will be pressed, and then follows up those questions by saying "If she [presses charges], then I'm going to rape her because [Gibbons] didn't," it's more than a regrettable comment. It's a threat, which he knew or should have known would get back to the victim. With regards to your claim about him not attempting to contact the victim, can you offer an alternative reason for his behavior? Was he trying to identify the victim so he wouldn't talk to her?

C.E. Beatty's police report of December 6, 2009. On December 5, 2009, Lewan repeatedly asked the victim or her friends (it's unclear because identities are redacted) whether the victim planned to press charges. Lewan then proceeded to say that "If she does, then I'm going to rape her because [Gibbons] didn't." I don't know how that can be seen as anything but a threat.

Moreover, you acknowledge in your own post that Lewan actually did attempt to contact the victim. Why else would he approach the group of coeds and start asking "Is this [the victim]?"

OSU fans hate Fickell like Michigan fans hated Borges. There was no way he would be named sole coordinator, especially after Sparty racked up 438 yards in the B1G championship game with the Bollrus in the booth.

Do they have anyone coming in that OSU would even want? Last time I looked at BSD, they were going wild because they'd had a 2* commit. That being said, I don't follow recruiting, so I have no idea what the state of our class is, or whether Urban would snake oil Penn State.